Another Year Another Backup

With 2006 ending in a few days, I decide I should make an end of the year backup. As I looked at the data on my hard drive, I decided that I should archive the following:

Quickbooks Data File
Since most of my data entry is completed for the year, I am going to make a copy of my Quickbooks file.

Invoice PDF’s
Over the past couple of years, I have been using email to send some of my invoices. As I review the sub directory I created called InvoiceArchive, I realize that it has over a hundred invoices in it. I need to save this also.

Digital Photos
I took many digital photos this year and I am sure that they exist on a backup somewhere. I am going to burn each set to a CD and label it.

Audio Files
I started working on audio products in 2006. The last project with source and edited recording created about 1.5 Gigabytes of data. I am going to burn that to a DVD and store it along with the hard copy of the materials that go with it.

Downloaded Bank Statements
I do most of my banking online and receive statement via email. I am going to burn all of these statements along with any other bank information to a cd.

I suggest that you do this also. Remember that you can never have too many backups.

Any thoughts or comments,

Happy New Year,


Marc